Even though it was actually three weeks ago, it feels like just yesterday videographer Kate Maier and I were eating lunch with 11-year-old Wyatt at the Flaningan's in Pompano Beach.

Over some cheesy potato skins, larger-than-your-mouth burgers, and double chocolate cake, Clean Plate Charlie documented Wyatt's journalistic process from drink order to dessert. It was his first interview.

Smiling photos mirror the ones from the post Wyatt uploaded about his interview with us. It was just too soon: only one post about IKEA's Swedish meatballs separates our post from Channel 10's and he gave Janine and Donnie five sporks up (the same amount of sporks he gave to me and Kate, sigh - how fickle the affections of tweens can be).

At Clean Plate Charlie we applaud anyone who wants to delve elbow-deep into the Broward food blogosphere -- especially when you're 11 and don't talk with your mouth full. We are more than excited for Wyatt and his future culinary endeavors, and -- who knows -- potential super-stardom at the rate news crews seem to be jumping on the bandwagon we very proudly ignited.

We'll see if we get a shout-out on his interview that airs tonight at 11 p.m. on Channel 10. Until then, we'll give Janine and Donnie the benefit of the doubt.

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Jess Swanson is a staff writer at New Times. Born and raised in Miami, she graduated from the University of Miami’s School of Communication and wrote briefly for the student newspaper until realizing her true calling: pissing off fraternity brothers by reporting about their parties on her crime blog. Especially gifted in jumping rope and solving Rubik’s cubes, she also holds the title for longest stint as an unpaid intern in New Times history. She left the Magic City for New York to earn her master’s degree from Columbia University School of Journalism, where she spent a year profiling circumcised men who were trying to regrow their foreskins for a story that ultimately won the John Horgan Award for Critical Science Journalism. Terrified by pizza rats and arctic temperatures, she quickly returned to her natural habitat.